GenAI Hackathon — The first AI hackathon held in Maldives

The GenAI Hackathon was the first of its kind in the Maldives — a 48-hour event where teams of 3–5 built, deployed, and launched real GenAI-powered products. No mock demos. No pitched prototypes. Products had to be live on a public domain and listed on Product Hunt before anyone could take the stage.

The brief for the visual identity was just as direct: make it feel like AI. Not a reference to AI, not a mood board that gestures toward technology — the identity needed to feel like it came from the same world as the thing it was representing.

This project delivered that, and then some. Logo, colour, typography, Lottie animations, background loops for the event LED screens, OBS overlays for virtual sessions and workshops, social media grid templates, presentation decks, the website UI, and the submission hub where participants publicly showcased everything they built. It wasn't a visual identity system. It was a complete vibe.

Every decision traced back to the symbol.

The logo mark is pixel-based — deliberately, not decoratively. A pixel grid reads as computer-native without spelling it out. It signals the same world AI lives in: binary, precise, built from discrete units. That was the foundation. Everything else followed.

Once the mark existed, the visual language wrote itself. Pixel-style grids became the structure for social post templates. The same logic shaped the layout system, the deck design, the overlays. It wasn't a design system in the formal sense — it was a single visual idea extended consistently across every surface the hackathon would touch.

MauMotion took the animation brief and understood it immediately. The logo reveal sequence feels like something being rendered in real time — like the mark is being drawn by the machine itself. That became the event's signature moment every time the identity appeared on screen.

The background loops ran on the event's LED screens throughout the 48 hours, keeping the brand present without demanding attention. OBS overlays handled the virtual participation side: sessions, workshops, and livestreams all carried the same visual grammar. Lottie animations covered the looping backgrounds and the award leaflets used during prize presentation.

On the product side, the submission hub gave participants a live showcase platform — functional, on-brand, and public-facing before the event even finished. The website UI established the same register: bold, pixel-inflected, unmistakably AI.